SHORT QUESTIONS : AGE OF ROMANTIC REVIVAL

 C. B. PATEL ARTS COLLEGE, NADIAD

UA05MAENG01: AGE OF ROMANTIC REVIVAL

SHORT QUESTIONS

 

1. The Prelude – William Wordsworth

  1. Who wrote The Prelude? – William Wordsworth
  2. In which year was The Prelude published posthumously? – 1850
  3. What type of work is The Prelude? – Autobiographical poem (blank verse epic)
  4. Which literary age does The Prelude belong to? – Romantic Age
  5. The Prelude is often called the autobiography of whose mind? – Wordsworth’s poetic mind

2. Biographia Literaria – S. T. Coleridge

  1. Who is the author of Biographia Literaria? – S. T. Coleridge
  2. In which year was Biographia Literaria published? – 1817
  3. What type of work is it? – Critical prose/autobiographical criticism
  4. Which age does it belong to? – Romantic Age
  5. Biographia Literaria contains Coleridge’s theory of what? – Imagination

3. Adonais – P. B. Shelley

  1. Who wrote Adonais? – P. B. Shelley
  2. In which year was Adonais published? – 1821
  3. What type of work is Adonais? – Elegy
  4. Which age does it belong to? – Romantic Age
  5. Adonais mourns the death of which poet? – John Keats

4. The Defence of Poetry – P. B. Shelley

  1. Who authored The Defence of Poetry? – P. B. Shelley
  2. When was it written and published posthumously? – 1821 (published 1840)
  3. What type of work is it? – Critical prose/essay
  4. Which age does it belong to? – Romantic Age
  5. In it, Shelley famously says, “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” True/False? – True

5. Don Juan – Lord Byron

  1. Who wrote Don Juan? – Lord Byron
  2. In which year did Byron begin publishing Don Juan? – 1819
  3. What type of work is it? – Mock-epic / Satirical poem
  4. Which age does it belong to? – Romantic Age
  5. How many cantos did Byron complete before his death? – 16 cantos

6. The Eve of St. Agnes – John Keats

  1. Who wrote The Eve of St. Agnes? – John Keats
  2. In which year was it published? – 1820
  3. What type of poem is it? – Romantic narrative poem
  4. Which age does it belong to? – Romantic Age
  5. What legend does the poem draw from? – Medieval superstition of St. Agnes’ Eve

7. Waverley – Sir Walter Scott

  1. Who authored Waverley? – Sir Walter Scott
  2. In which year was it published? – 1814
  3. What type of work is Waverley? – Historical novel
  4. Which age does it belong to? – Romantic Age
  5. Waverley is considered the first what? – Historical novel in English literature

8. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

  1. Who wrote Pride and Prejudice? – Jane Austen
  2. In which year was it published? – 1813
  3. What type of work is it? – Novel of manners
  4. Which age does it belong to? – Romantic Age (transitional)
  5. What was its original working title? – First Impressions

9. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen

  1. Who is the author of Northanger Abbey? – Jane Austen
  2. When was it published posthumously? – 1817
  3. What type of novel is it? – Gothic parody / Satirical novel
  4. Which age does it belong to? – Romantic Age
  5. Which heroine appears in Northanger Abbey? – Catherine Morland

10. Essays of Elia – Charles Lamb

  1. Who wrote Essays of Elia? – Charles Lamb
  2. When was it first published? – 1823
  3. What type of work is it? – Collection of personal essays
  4. Which age does it belong to? – Romantic Age
  5. Under what pen name were the essays written? – Elia

11. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater – Thomas De Quincey

  1. Who authored Confessions of an English Opium-Eater? – Thomas De Quincey
  2. When was it published? – 1821
  3. What type of work is it? – Autobiographical prose
  4. Which age does it belong to? – Romantic Age
  5. What addiction does it describe? – Opium addiction

12. Table Talk – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  1. Who wrote Table Talk? – S. T. Coleridge
  2. When was it published? – 1835
  3. What type of work is it? – Collection of conversations/aphorisms
  4. Which age does it belong to? – Romantic Age
  5. Who compiled Coleridge’s Table Talk? – Henry Nelson Coleridge

13. Imaginary Conversations – Walter Savage Landor

  1. Who wrote Imaginary Conversations? – Walter Savage Landor
  2. When was it first published? – 1824
  3. What type of work is it? – Prose dialogues
  4. Which age does it belong to? – Romantic Age
  5. It features dialogues between what? – Historical and literary figures

14. The Indicator – Leigh Hunt

  1. Who is the author of The Indicator? – Leigh Hunt
  2. When was it published? – 1819–1821 (periodical form)
  3. What type of work is it? – Literary periodical essays
  4. Which age does it belong to? – Romantic Age
  5. Leigh Hunt was also close friend of which Romantic poets? – Byron, Shelley, Keats

15. The Sketch Book – Washington Irving

  1. Who wrote The Sketch Book? – Washington Irving
  2. In which year was it published? – 1819–1820
  3. What type of work is it? – Collection of essays and short stories
  4. Which age does it belong to? – Romantic Age (American Romanticism)
  5. Which famous tales appear in it? – Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

16. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott – J. G. Lockhart

  1. Who authored this memoir? – J. G. Lockhart (Scott’s son-in-law)
  2. When was it published? – 1837–1838
  3. What type of work is it? – Biography
  4. Which age does it belong to? – Romantic/Victorian transitional
  5. How many volumes does it contain? – Seven

17. Life of Byron – Thomas Moore

  1. Who wrote Life of Byron? – Thomas Moore
  2. When was it published? – 1830
  3. What type of work is it? – Biography
  4. Which age does it belong to? – Romantic Age
  5. Moore was also famous as what? – An Irish poet and songwriter

18. Joan of Arc – Robert Southey

  1. Who wrote Joan of Arc? – Robert Southey
  2. When was it published? – 1796
  3. What type of work is it? – Epic poem
  4. Which age does it belong to? – Romantic Age
  5. How old was Southey when he wrote it? – Just 19 years old

19. GENERAL QUESTIONS

  1. Which age is common to most works listed? – Romantic Age
  2. Who among the list is called “the Lake Poet”? – Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey
  3. Which work is a parody of Gothic fiction? – Northanger Abbey
  4. Which work is considered the first historical novel? – Waverley
  5. Which author pioneered personal essay style in England? – Charles Lamb
  6. Which work is subtitled An Autobiographical Sketch? – Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
  7. Who is known as the “Poet of Nature”? – William Wordsworth
  8. Which novel begins with the line “It is a truth universally acknowledged”? – Pride and Prejudice
  9. Which poet died before seeing the publication of The Prelude? – Wordsworth
  10. Which writer among the list is American? – Washington Irving

 

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